ringo’s messy messes

my sweet, dear ringo starr has a drinking problem. he only wants to drink water out of his bowl after he’s moved it around the kitchen floor.

ordinarily, this would not be a big deal. however, the finish on our floor is not ordinary. when we moved into this house, there was ratty linoleum on half the floor. one day a couple of years ago, we decided to pull the linoleum up. unfortunately, the glue, and the bottom of the linoleum -or maybe a tar paper of some sort- would not come up. rich rented a sander, but to no avail.

the result is that whenever the floor gets wet, the brown stuff turns to mud; the kitties then leave little muddy footprints all over the house. I discovered accidentally, that if I scrape the stuff when it’s wet, it will come up, but man, oh man, that will take me forever!

it’s a good thing I love that cat!

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It could get worse,… when we had Baxter here, he would only drink running water – and only IN our presence. Apparently it’s bad to drink alone! I can’t tell you how many times I’d be standing in the bathroom listening to slurping (apparently he didn’t know it was impolite to slurp!) and waiting for him to fill up.

We bought a water fountain at one point because I worried about him when we were gone for the day or weekend – I think he used it, but never when we were home.

Do you know what the sound of trickling water does to a pregnant woman with a squished bladder?!?